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Phishing Scam Hitting Accountholders, Warns First Harrison Bank

Corydon, Indiana, USA-based First Harrison Bank has issued an alert about a phishing electronic mail that is targeting the bank's customers with a malevolent web-link in circulation, published wbiw.com dated November 21, 2013.

Advising recipients towards following the web-link, the e-mail tries to trick the users so they would download a PC-virus or reveal their financial or other personal information.

Actually, present day cyber-criminals are pretty skilled at enticing people into divulging own usernames, passwords alternatively payment card details and other personal information.

While dispatching their malicious e-mails, the criminals pretend to be genuine financial institutions (similar as within the above instance); government agencies alternatively; legitimate businesses or services. Usually, recipients of such e-mails act extremely fast since the phishing messages often warn of account hijack else closure, First Harrison explains.

Moreover, the Bank as well issued the alert on Facebook.

It stated that First Harrison Bank wouldn't ever communicate with its customers in the particular manner. Therefore, they were being urged against providing any of their private details, while the bank regretted the inconvenience caused.

If people became convinced of the trick as well as followed the e-mail's web-link they were likely to end up suffering an enormous loss of their financial and other personal details, experts elaborated.

Unfortunately, according to the experts, cyber-criminals would then misuse the entire details posted through the fraudulent electronic mails. For example, the fraudsters might compromise victims' bank accounts as well as carry out illegal money transfers or financial transactions. They'd further commit ID theft and/or card fraud.

The experts also said that the above phishing technique was an extremely frequent strategy conducted, which had been played on prominent bank as well as reputable company clients, globally. Therefore, all uninvited e-mails must get regarded as dubious. Such e-mails, when received, should be ignored especially kept away from clicking on its web-links.

Meanwhile, during the last few days, another bank, which scammers have similarly abused, Edinburgh, Scotland based The Royal Bank of Scotland, urged its customers, during November 2013, for remaining vigilant of hoax e-mails which notified receivers about unusual operations on their A/Cs.